Japan Creates Ministry of Defense

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Noticing that you come from Italy and that we're talking about the former Axis countries of WWII, would you apply that to your country? :hmm:

It applies to every "democratic" country.
Japan has 2000 + years of history, and only 50 years of democratic government.
And I was answering to this quote : "They are way too democratic to go backwards now".
Japan has been a democracy for only 50 years, it represents nothing in respect to their whole history.
And to be honest, democracy was forced on japan, so it is not so radicated within their political culture.

I wouldn't, although Italy has tinkered with fascism every now and then.

No, since the end of ww 2 Italy has been a democratic republic.

While the Japanese supress the hsitory of their own wickedness which they perpetrated during WWII, this appears to be done in order to avoid a national shame. I think that's a shame and a disgrace in itself but I don't see this as a sign or a concern of their reverting back to the days of an emporer with his empire.

Maybe japan will not revert to the old ways, but they sure as hell have a nationalistic and expansionist view that if given free reign could bring more harm to the region than north corea, cina, russia and india put together.